• The Red Rome, or Rome Beauty, has nothing to do with the seat of the ancient empire. This cooking apple actually originated near Rome Township, Ohio, in the early 1800s.

• The Fuji apple is also not named after the place you might expect. Mistakenly, many people think that it was named after Mount Fuji. But this apple clone was developed by growers at a research station in Fujisake, Aomori, Japan in the late 1930s.

• The tartGranny Smith green apple is in fact named after it’s propagator, Maria Ann Smith. The apple originated in Australia in 1868.